Work bugs me

[urbpan]

I have to admit, one of my favorite things about working where I do, is that there are many more bugs than in the city.



Thread-legged bug.





Orhtopteran (snowy tree cricktet, I suspect) on garlic mustard.







Unidentified jumper on the washing machine.



Still my favorite kind of spider. Look at that face!

Comments

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are "true bugs," subfamily Emesinae: http://bugguide.net/node/view/213/bgimage

Do you have a short word to use in the place of "bug;" "Terrestrial arthropod" is kind of cumbersome. I say "bug" unless I know there's a sensitive entomophile around.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Neat!

I just use "Insect". 'Bug' for anything small, winged and crawly is one of my pet hates, along with calling a *spider* an insect and calling any invertebrate that pops up in a place not convenient for us as a "pest"...

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I generally use "critter" to include arachnids, millipedes, centipedes, and insects. "Insect" or "buhgs" for insects. This goes back to a classmate I had in one of my undergraduate classes. He was from far west Texas and had a drawl like crazy. One day, he made the comment "Iff'n it's gawt more'n four lehgs and goes cah-runch when ye step awn it, it's ah buuuhg." (the word bug being sustained for nearly a full second). "Or mebbe ah spahder."

You did see that I gave you a species for that specimen earlier, right?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you! :)

Unfortunately, though I always find them on a man-made surface (the mosquito netting of my bird cages) I have never found them in the city. I don't feel like I can use them in the project.

I found one in the garden

[rockbalancer.livejournal.com]

I found one in the garden at work the other day. It was under some leaves of what I think was Elecampane, Inlua helenium.